This document provides an overview of open access (OA) publishing at Taylor & Francis, detailing its definitions, types (gold and green OA), and the history of OA development within the organization. It outlines the various OA policies, author rights, and the importance of ethics and quality in the current OA landscape, as well as recent milestones in global OA initiatives. Additionally, it emphasizes the advantages of OA publishing for researchers, such as increased discoverability and the ability to retain copyright.

1. Open Access Update
Taylor & Francis Library Workshop
October 2015

2. What are we talking about today?
 What is open access?
 Open access at Taylor & Francis
 Researchers’ perspectives worldwide
 Helping researchers with Open Access
www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess

4. The Budapest Open Access Initiative defines open
access as:
“free availability on the public internet, permitting any
users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search, or link to …full texts…, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them
for any other lawful purpose... The only…role for
copyright…, should be to give authors control over the
integrity of their work and the right to be properly
acknowledged and cited.”

5. Our definitions
Gold Open Access
• publication of the final article (Version of Record)
• article is made freely available online (often but not always
after payment of an article publishing charge (APC))
Green Open Access
• Archiving / deposit of an (earlier version of an) article in a
repository
www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess

6. History of OA at T&F
• 2005: Delayed free access for Avian Pathology
and European Journal of Phycology – now 38
journals
• 2006: OpenSelect, our hybrid OA scheme – now
on 94% of Taylor & Francis journals
• 2008: Automatic deposit of NIH-funded research
in PMC – easily extended if other funders follow
same policy
• 2011: Zero embargo LIS trial launched
• 2013: Launch of Cogent OA – 15 journals
• Now: 60+ OA journals at T&F – more for 2016

7. • We have a liberal and equitable green open access
policy: authors can self-archive:
– a preprint (author’s own [submitted] version) in repository ahead
of publication
– The accepted manuscript (also known as a post-print)
– normally after an embargo period
• 12 months for S&T and 18 months for SSA&H
– But NB we have a pilot ‘No Embargo’ Green Scheme for Library
& information science journals
– posting the Taylor & Francis PDF is not permitted
– We guarantee the Version of Scholarly Record in perpetuity
Our OA options

8. No subscription content =
Gold OA (+ can archive VoR
immediately)
APCs from $0 to $1,750
Offer Gold and
subscription / Green OA
Standard APC $2,950 /
£1,788 (NB discounts,
waivers and NESLI APC
Allowance in the UK)
Our Journals
No subscription
content = Gold OA (+
can archive VoR
immediately)
APCs being introduced
Also fledgling T&F OA Books
initiative

9. Open
• Taylor & Francis / Routledge Open:
A fully open access journals offering authors
a choice of license
– Gold OA option: final article made OA (in journal with no
subscription content)
– Green OA option applies: Version of Record can be posted
on publication

10. Open Select
• Taylor & Francis / Routledge Open Select:
A hybrid open access option for authors of
accepted articles in subscription journals
– Gold OA option: final article made OA in a subscription-based
journal. Standard APC is US$2,950 (waivers do apply)
– Green OA option: archiving / posting earlier version of MS on
publication of final article in a subscription-based journal

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LISAH ZEN policy
• Author Rights Pilot Initiative launched Nov 1st 2011
• Library and Information Science journals plus Archives and Heritage titles

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13. What are we publishing?
www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess

14. Researchers’ Perspectives

15. OA and Latin America
• Brazil – long tradition of Open Access publishing on
SciELO
– SciELO launched in 1987
– SciELO now carries 1,000+ journals and also books
• Argentina – Nov 2013: National Senate passed a
law requiring institutions to create institutional
repositories
• Mexico – June 2014: bill passed on OA to publicly-
funded research

16. Recent Global OA Milestones
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• Jun 2012 – UK ‘Finch’ report on expanding public access to publicly funded research / RCUK Green
/ Gold OA policy announced
• Jan 2013 – Australian Research Council announces Green OA policy
• Feb 2013 – US OSTP memo / FASTR act proposed in Congress
• May 2013 – Global Research Council Summit, Berlin: Action Plan towards Open Access to
Publications
• Jan 2014 – launch of EU’s Horizon 2020 (8th FP for Research) – Green / Gold OA
• Mar 2014 – publication of Wellcome Trust et al-commissioned :study on APC market May 2014-
China: CAS and NSFC: Green OA with 12 month embargo
• Jun 2014 – revised Norwegian Research Council policy (refund up to 50 % of APC costs to HEI’s
publication fund provided journal listed in DOAJ)
• Sep 2014 - Higher Education Council for England (HEFCE) policy announced (UK)
• Dec 2014 – Bill & Melinda Gates OA policy announced (Gold OA w CC BY licence)
• Dec 2014 – VSNU consortium (NL) negotiations around OA
• Jan 2015 – DBT / DST OA policy formalised (India) – Green OA
• Jan 2015 – National Research Foundation (South Africa) Green OA policy announced
• Feb 2015 – Canadian Tri-Agency policy (Green / Gold OA)
• May 2015 – Global Research Council meeting, Tokyo

17. 2014 Open Access Survey
• 8,000 responses (9% response rate)
• 95% assurance that any result from survey lies
within 1% of the view of the T&F author community
• Author community first surveyed in 2013, now able
to explore changing attitudes to 2014
• Dataset available on Figshare under
CC BY licence

18. Perceived advantages of OA publishing
Perceived advantages of Open Access publishing:

19. Perceived advantages of OA publishing

20. Future intentions regarding OA and own research

21. Future alternative to academic papers

22. Helping Researchers with Open
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1. Increased discoverability: anyone can read
(and cite) your work.
2. Reaching beyond academia: it can be easily
accessed by people outside your research field,
and outside the scholarly community.
3. Highlighting your work: you can share and
post your final published article (the Version of
Record) anywhere.
4. Ownership: You retain the copyright to your
work.
4reasons to publish OA
www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess

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T&F Researcher Survey: Latin America
• Qu: ‘What do
you look for
when submitting
an article?’
• Survey conducted
in 2013
• 18,000
researchers
contacted
• 8% response rate
• Most
respondents
from Brazil

25. A quick note on… article versions
• AOM = Author’s Original / Author Version / Preprint – the version of
the article initially submitted to the journal
• AM = Accepted Manuscript / Postprint – the version of an article
which has been through peer review and been accepted for publication
• VoR = Version of Record – the final published version of an article,
including all typesetting, copy-editing, and reference linking. Can
include links to subsequent errata or retraction notices, comments,
replies, supplemental data, etc.
Submission
- AOM
Acceptance
- AM
Publication
- VoR
What
about
books?
Peer review,
revision, etc
Posting of AMO, copyediting,
typsetting, tagging, supp matt….

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27. Licensing
T&F offer 3 CC licences for Gold OA publication:
CC BY (Attribution)
CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs)
CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial)

28. “DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-
reviewed journals.” - https://doaj.org/
An assurance of the legitimacy and integrity of an OA journal.

29. A resource for authors, to inform them of allowable and non-allowable dissemination of their
articles, and to inform authors of journals whose publishing policies fall in line with the Open Access
requirements of various institutions and funding bodies.
Journal information provided by British Library (Jisc), DOAJ, and the Entrez journal list (NCBI).
Run by SHERPA Services, based at the University of Nottingham, UK.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple

30. Why are ethics and quality important?
• Growth in OA publishing has brought proliferation of ‘fake’
publishers making false claims of peer review processes/quality
guarantees in return for APC payments from unsuspecting authors
• Quality and trust critical in this arena: validation of scholarly
research, but what constitutes ‘the scholarly record’ in the online
arena?
• Scholarly publishing must have ethical practices at its core,
and publishers and editors need an environment in which ethics are
seen as a central part of performing and publishing quality research
• Use and abuse of metrics – as funding mechanisms hinge around
‘impact’
• Retractions are on the rise….why?
• Peer review processes – which is ‘the fairest of them all’?
T&F are pro-actively working to address these issues.

31. • http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ (advice for authors)
• http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess (includes ‘What is Open Access’ video, OA
survey, and so on)
• http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/funders (OA membership options,
subscription adjustment policy)
• http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (external log of country, institutional and funder mandates. A
good reference, though policy information can be out of date so should be double checked
on the relevant funder / institutional website)
• http://editorresources.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/?p=5350 (our Editor Resources site with
lots of useful information around all aspects of publishing)
• Directory of Open Access Books: http://www.doabooks.org/ (OAPEN foundation)
• OAPEN Library: http://www.oapen.org/home = OA platform for HSS scholarly monographs
• JISC National Monograph Strategy, September 2014
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/national-monograph-strategy
• OAPEN Study of OA Monographs, final report due March 2015
• http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/
• = includes case studies of two learned societies, the Royal Historical Society and the Regional Studies
Association: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/learned-society-case-studies/
• HEFCE – OA Monograph website, report due December 2014
• http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/monographs/
• AHRC – Academic Book of the Future, report due October 2016
• http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Future-of-the-Academic-Book.aspx
Links and further information

32. www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess for more OA information
including motion graphics

33. Open Access Week
• Gold OA – 50% APC discount October and
November
• #GoldFriday – 8 winners of APC credits for
forthcoming papers. Sign up to our OA
bulletin to enter the draw!
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34. Thank you!